View of Town - Old Route 66

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Fot d. 5x2 PP bas Col SHORT DEAD-END STRETCH OF "OLD OLD 66: THIS WAS ORIGINALLY ILL. RT. 4, CREATED BY STATE BOND ISSUE #4, IN 1918, THEN SIGNED 66 IN 1926. ELKHART, ILLINOIS (ALT. 594 FT.) - (VIEW FACING EAST)- A PROMINENT TINY ELKHART NESTLES AT THE BASE OF ELKHART HILL LANDMARK RISING ABOVE THE SURROUNDING FLAT PRAIRIE LAND. THE HILL IS A GLACIAL DEPOSITION, OR MORAINE: UN STRATIFIED "DRIFT" (ROCKS, GRAVEL, SEDIMENT), CALLED TILL, LEFT BEHIND BY RETREATING GLACIERS. (55 MARATHON ELKMART OL 6 ABOVE VIEW SEEN. THIS POINT TO Waldmire SPRINGFIELD OLD OLD 66 Daar KE - Italut (55) TO LINCOLN ELKHART ELKHARTA MINING TO WN - IS HOMETOWN & BURIAL PLACE OF RICHARD 3-TIME GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS. HE BUILT HIS WOGLEHURST" OGLESBY (1824-1899), 3-TIME GOVERNOR OF ILLINOIS. MANSION ON ELKHART HILL'S CREST IN 1891. THE BLOCK-LONG TOWN FEATURES WELL-PRESERVED BRICK BUILDINGS, JUST ACROSS THE OLD CHICAGO & ALTON R.R. TRACKS. BESIDE 4-LANE DIVIDED 66 SITS A GRACEFULLY-CURVED, TILED SERVICE STATION, BUILT IN THE LATE 1940's & STILL 2 MI. SOUTH OF ELK HART IS THE TURRIS COAL MINE. A RECENT STUDY RE- VEALED HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD, ARSENIC & OTHER HEAVY METALS IN DUST FROM FLY by R. Waldmire ASH, WHICH IS DUMPED AT THE COAL MINE BY A DECATUR, ILLINOIS COMPANY. OPERATING. ART ELKHART HILL OLD ROUTE 66 Scenes! 1990

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ROUTE 66 WAS CERTIFIED IN 1926 WHEN THE NATION ADOPTED A NUIMBERED SYSTEM OF CROSS- COUNTRY, INTER-STATE ROADS. FULLY PAVED BY 1936, ROUTE 66 BECAME AN IMPORTANT & LEGENDARY HIGHWAY IMMORTALIZED IN LITERATURE, MUSIC & ON TELEVISION. GRADUALLY "REPLACED BY HUGE, HOMOGENEOUS "INTERSTATES," 66 WAS DECERTIFIED IN 1985, CEASING TO EXIST OFFICIALLY: BUT WELL OVER 80% OF THE OLD ROAD IS STILL PRIVEABLE SO, TRAVEL BACK IN TIME, & LEAYE THE STRESS BEHIND ON THE INTERSTATES... AND THEN, YOU TO WILL SAY: I STILL GET MY KICKS, ON OLD ROUTE 66 SMALL IS EAUTIFUL OLD S BEAUTIFUL SLOW IS BEAUTIFUL SAFE IS BEAUTIFUL." SANTA MONICA! PASADENA LOS ANGELES Pacific Ocean CAL VICTOR LUDLOW SAN BERNARDINO Great Basin MOJAVEDESERT, COLORADO R NEV/ NEEDLES FLORIM Grand Canyon UTAH ARIZ NM. Painted Desert Petrified for WINONA- WINSLOW JOSE PA CITY FLAGSTAFF GALLUP Colorado Plateau COLO. GRANDE RIO HOLBROOKO FONT DIVIDE ANTS 62563 MORIARTY SANTA ROSA , ILLINOIS ROCHESTER, TUCUMCARI Tos .2. Box 110, AIRE, R. A still the best way west? TAKE OLD DMI R. WALD (write small) ALBUQUERQUE GLENRIO VEGA ALMOST ALL THE WAY! MAIN STREET,USA ChicagotoL.A.!! OKLA Weather ForeD HYDRO HAN. TEKSUS ARCADIA EDMOND OXLAHOMA CITY VEGA (midway on 66) AMARILLO MCLEAN GR23 ELK CITY SHAMROCK Prairie CLINTON Province COKLA GALENA BAXTER SRGS. DEPEW Ow KANSAS CHANDLER -SAPULPA 2. Waldmi NMOLTION- MIAMI SAINT LOULS PACIFIC SULLIVAN- CUBA-- JOPLIN VINITA CLAREMORE TULSA CHICAGO ILLINOIS BROAD WELL SPRINGFIELD CARTHAGE ROLLA WAYNES VILLE LEBANON CONWAY Lake Michigan JOLIET DWIGHT MOPONTIAC NORMAL OLINCOLN BLOOMINGTON PLATEAU SPRINGFIELD LITCHFIELD EDWARDSVILLE GRANITE CITY EAST ST. LOUIS Mississippi R 1990 PRINTED ON 100% RECYCLED STOCK